”the Lord of the rings”-director Peter Jackson’s documentary about the first world war, ”They shall not grow old”, has been highlighted, inter alia, when the director let the specially trained läppläsare recreate the call from the old movies. Soldiers uttolkade conversations from the trenches and the battlefields have since been read out of the voice actors.
the Footage from the first world war has also been restored and been colourised with the help of advanced digital tools.
shown in Sweden by Folkets hus and parks in both 3D and standard 2D version around the country.
June 28 in the year it is 100 years since the peace of Versailles and the documentary focuses on the many young men who went out to war, but never came home again. This material is supplemented in the film by interviews with war veterans from the BBC’s extensive bandarkiv – which means that everything that is said in the documentary words from soldiers who were actually on site.
the Footage has also been sound, and for the people shall move at a normal pace – the cameras filmed in fewer images per second, the makers filled out the ”missing” filmrutorna and changed the speed on the film reels. ”They shall not grow old”, has its Premiere in sweden march 8.
